Tag Archives: Virginia State Bar

The Standing Committee on Legal Ethics of the Virginia State Bar finally has a formal position on the troublesome issue of using undisclosed recordings to investigate and develop a case. The committee adopted Legal Ethics Opinion 1802, which shifts the ...

The Virginia State Bar and the statewide volunteer bars have set up the machinery for vetting candidates who want to succeed Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. on the Supreme Court of Virginia The bars are asking for written materials to ...

When the Virginia State Bar’s operating reserve was dropping, the discussion was about how soon dues would go up. Does a surplus dictate a decrease in dues? Richmond lawyer W. David Harless posed the question last week at a meeting ...

Young lawyer groups in two statewide bar organizations brought home trophies when the American Bar Association presented its Awards of Achievement at its annual meeting held in San Francisco last month. The Virginia Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division received first ...

Sometimes lawyers on the social circuit field questions that start as, “I’ve got this friend.” Sometimes it’s not subterfuge, there really is a friend who needs legal advice. If the legal problem is in your community and you are qualified ...

It’s a scene familiar to every lawyer. You’re at a cocktail party, introduced all around, when someone asks what you do for a living. As soon as you acknowledge your profession, some stranger hits you with a legal question. As ...

Whatever staff time went into former Virginia State Bar President Jon Huddleston’s “Virginia is for Good Lawyers” campaign appears to be a bargain. The Wisconsin State Bar spent almost $100,000 in 2007 to buy television ads aimed at improving the ...

Whatever staff time went into former Virginia State Bar President Jon Huddleston’s “Virginia is for Good Lawyers” campaign appears to be a bargain. The Wisconsin State Bar spent almost $100,000 in 2007 to buy television ads aimed at improving the ...

The Virginia State Bar’s Standing Committee on Legal Ethics is trying again to fashion a legal ethics opinion on the issue of undisclosed recordings to investigate and develop a case. Proposed LEO 1802 takes what the bar believes is a ...

Virginia State Bar disciplinary charges against former York County assistant prosecutor Cathy Krinick have been dropped in the wake of dismissal of a companion case against commonwealth’s attorney Eileen Addison. VSB Counsel Edward Davis confirmed the head of a three-judge ...